Colin Matthews Sheet Music for Ensemble

The score for Mondnacht composed by Robert Schumann and arranged by Colin Matthews in digital sheet music format.

The instrumental parts for Mondnacht composed by Robert Schumann and arranged by Colin Matthews in digital sheet music format.

My Oboe Quartet No.1 was written early in 1981 to a centenary year commission from the University of Nottingham. The work, which lasts about 10 minutes, is in fifteen short sections (all linked by rel...

My Oboe Quartet No.1 was written early in 1981 to a centenary year commission from the University of Nottingham. The work, which lasts about 10 minutes, is in fifteen short sections (all linked by rel...

Instrumentation: picc.ob.bcl.cbsn - hn - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: 1.1.1.bcl.1 - 1100 - perc(1): BD+foot ped/hi-hat/wdbl/(tam-t)/flexatone/vib/glsp/(mar) - pno(= elec keyboard ad lib) - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 4 tom-t/tam-t/crot or glsp - pno - vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: afl.ca(=ob).cl.bcl(=Ebcl ad lib).bsn(=cbsn) - 2 hn.tpt- perc(1): BD/4 tom-t/vibraslap/susp.cym/hi-hat/tam-t/vib/mar - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

Triptych was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble and first performed by them in the Wigmore Hall in May 1984. It is a single movement, lasting 6 ½ minutes, whose title derives both from the three se...

This is the vocal part from an arrangement in A minor for solo voice, cor anglais, harp and strings of 'La virgen lava pañales' for voice and orchestra, a Traditional Spanish work orchestrated in this...

This is the hart part from an arrangement in A minor for solo voice, cor anglais, harp and strings of 'La virgen lava pañales' for voice and orchestra, a Traditional Spanish work orchestrated in this...

My Second Oboe Quartet was promised to the Berlin Oboe Quartet after a performance which they gave of my first quartet in January 1988. Composed in the autumn of 1989, the work is, like the earlier qu...

This four-minute cantata was written for Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble who, under the direction of John Woolrich, gave the first performance in May 1989 at the Brighton Festival. br>I Intro...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc+afl).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 5 tom-t/4 rototom/2 tam-t/boobams/7 crot/vibraslap/susp.cym/siz.cym/cabaca/waterphone - pno - vla.vlc.db The Spanish Conquest of Central and Sou...

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).bcl(=cl) - hn - pno - harp - vla.vlc

23 Frames was composed in 1994 as a gift for Amelia Freedman and the Nash Ensemble. 23 is a favourite prime number of mine, and the ‘frames’ all incorporate a reference – sometimes recognisable but mo...

Instrumentation: 1.1.0.bcl.1 - 1000 - pno - vln.vla.vlc.db Written for Speculum Musicae at the request of Oliver Knussen. L, bent… is a short, fast piece written to celebrate my brother David’s 50th b...

Instrumentation: 1(=afl+picc).1(=ca).1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(1): BD(with foot ped)/hi-hat/4 tom-t/3 tam-t - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Contraflow might be compared to a journey in which the return...